Secret data, the government, and you...

NickSimcheck wrote in post #2231980
Does one style of tinfoil hat work better then another? I think so.

Cause first I made a beanie, and I felt as if someone was watching me.
So then I made a baseball cap, and I felt like they were honing in on me...Backwards was even worse!
So then I made a painters hat...and I felt really gay, so I made a coyboy hat and then I felt that the women agents were attracted to me.
So then I made one like a Ninja, and I feel invisible.

Go with the Chef Guido model; shown here with the optional hand-held jamming antennae.

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Steath Tinja!

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Steath Tinja, proudly displaying new POTN neck strap.

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Your hat isn't working, infact its made the strap appear backwards in your photo, thats a good sign its not working at all.

Moppie wrote in post #2236850
Your hat isn't working, infact its made the strap appear backwards in your photo, thats a good sign its not working at all.

Backwards? I don't see anything backwards...Maybe the hat is working better then you think

NickSimcheck wrote in post #2236555
Steath Tinja!

Sweet.

That's exactly what I need for use with my "Helmet-Flash-Umbrella"

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I need one of those!

I think that you will get better portraits from that, I mean how could people not smile and laugh at the photographer!

The GPS in most phones is not actual GPS, instead it uses relative strength of nearby cellphone antennas to triangulate. Good in that it would work indoors where GPS won't. Bad in that you loose location coverage if you are outside (or in weak) cell phone coverage.

Cell phones on planes are bad because when the phone can't lock a signal it ramps up its transmission strength to try and find one. It has been proved that this can cause inaccuracies in the GPS (the real version) signal the planes uses. However, It has never been in any way linked to any accidents. Other electrical devices are just limited so you are paying attention during take off/landing.

Lastly, would the metal barrel of an L series lens be any better at causing interference with the government mind control waves than a plastic lens like the 50 1.8?

Citizensmith wrote in post #2264544
Lastly, would the metal barrel of an L series lens be any better at causing interference with the government mind control waves than a plastic lens like the 50 1.8?

Metal barrel sounds like a directional antenna to me

More likely to compress and focus your transmission strength on the return message. (Think of the coil at the bottom of the cellular car antenna).

Larger metal surface would absorb even more of the radiation to pass through to you. My camera, lens and equipment are heavy enough without the added weight of lead-lined gloves!!!

Gotta love screwing with people minds!!

Citizensmith wrote in post #2264544
The GPS in most phones is not actual GPS, instead it uses relative strength of nearby cellphone antennas to triangulate. Good in that it would work indoors where GPS won't. Bad in that you loose location coverage if you are outside (or in weak) cell phone coverage.

Cell phones on planes are bad because when the phone can't lock a signal it ramps up its transmission strength to try and find one. It has been proved that this can cause inaccuracies in the GPS (the real version) signal the planes uses. However, It has never been in any way linked to any accidents. Other electrical devices are just limited so you are paying attention during take off/landing.

Lastly, would the metal barrel of an L series lens be any better at causing interference with the government mind control waves than a plastic lens like the 50 1.8?

Some confusion here. Many phones do have actual GPS receivers. Others provide locator service by signal triangulation. Manufacturers and cell providers, when faced with the requirement of providing locator service for emergency calls, had the two options. GPS was the easier to implement and has more forward potential, but doesn't work as well inside buildings (your phone will relay the "last known" position in that case) or heavily-built-up areas and would only gradually come into effect as older phones were retired. Signal triangulation can be implemented immediately for all phones, but is less effective in high-density areas where large numbers of phones may be present, and is less precise. Because it's implemented at the central office, it's less amenable to adding on additional user services. But, unlike GPS, it can't be shut off separately from the phone for non-emergency uses (in the US, at least, signal locators are supposed to be used only on emergency calls or with permission of the 'phone user unless there's a court order or similar).

I tried loading a $20 bill into CS2 and it warned me I couldn't print

lakiluno wrote in post #2266525
I tried loading a $20 bill into CS2 and it warned me I couldn't print

Ya know, in this day and age I would be very cautious doing something like this with the machine hooked to the internet. If CS is smart enough to send a warning message to you, it can just as easily send a message to those men in black suits, and I don’t mean the alien guys either.

I put a wet towel around my head and asked my wife to try to read my mind. She couldn't. There - that's proof positive that the wet towel works!

gjl711 wrote in post #2266581
Ya know, in this day and age I would be very cautious doing something like this with the machine hooked to the internet. If CS is smart enough to send a warning message to you, it can just as easily send a message to those men in black suits, and I don’t mean the alien guys either.

a) Its not illegal to load an image of a $20 bill into a computer. They are available online

b) I don't even live in the US, so whatever they wanted I doubt an extradition order would be placed against me for looking at a $20 bill in CS2.

lakiluno wrote in post #2266945
a) Its not illegal to load an image of a $20 bill into a computer. They are available online

b) I don't even live in the US, so whatever they wanted I doubt an extradition order would be placed against me for looking at a $20 bill in CS2.

Chalk it up to being a paranoid American. But I dug into this a little deeper and found the statute governing scanning currency.
In the US the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations, allows you to use color scans of currency providing that it meets one of the following criteria
· The scan has to be less than ¾ or more than 1 ½ the size of the currency being scanned.
· The scan is one-sided.
· All the negatives, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices and any other thing used in the making of the scan is destroyed and/or deleted.
And the Euro may be reproduced if both the following criteria are met:
· The resolution of the image is 72 dpi or less.
· The word “SPECIMEN” is printed diagonally across the scan in a contrasting color. The word “SPECIMEN” should be 3/4 the length and 1/6 the width of the curancy
And the pound sterling can be reproduced if all the following conditions are met:
· The colors are distinctly different from the main colors used on the current series of banknotes
· No more than 50% of the total area of one side is reproduced
· The word “SPECIMEN” is printed twice in solid black capital letters, once from the bottom left corner to the top centre and again from the bottom centre to the top right corner. word “SPECIMEN” can’t be less than 1/3 the length and 1/8 the height of the scan

[SIZE=3]So my advice, put on the aluminum foil hat, wrap the wet towel around you head and scan away.